 | George Walker - 1825 - Страниц: 668
...wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they connot be said to have imitated any thin ling : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - Страниц: 430
...writers will, with oat great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets; fox they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature...nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
 | 1822 - Страниц: 608
...Johnson says of Cowley and his contemporaries, that " they cannot be said to have imitated any tliiny ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - Страниц: 722
...writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the "orms of matter, nor represented the operations >!' intellect Those however who deny them to be poets,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1835 - Страниц: 476
...writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forma of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those, however, who deny them to be poets,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - Страниц: 752
...writers will, without great wrong, lose theii ni'lii to the name of poets; for they cannot be said ^4 <y n8 ڑ- represented the operations of intellect Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - Страниц: 522
...writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature...nor life, neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those however who deny them to* be poets, allow them to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - Страниц: 716
...wrong, lose thcil right to the name of poets; for they cannot be* said to have imitated any thin™ : s something of vigour beyond most of his other performances: his precepts are represented the operations o' intellect. Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - Страниц: 510
...great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated anything ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect." The whole of the account is well worth reading ; it was a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - Страниц: 346
...these writers will without great wrong lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature...nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those, however, who deny them to he poets, allow them to be... | |
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If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither... 
